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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-020-1248 MG21-112 to MG21-113

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To his Excellency Beriah Magoffin

Your petitioners will respectfully state to your Excellency will re that at the last term of the Trigg circuit Court James A Calhoun was fined fifty Dollars for carrying concealed Weapons, Calhoun had his witnesses summoned and they did not attend. Nor Neither did Calhoun appear at Court on account the sickness of his wife, When if Calhoun had of been at court and had his witness there he could have proved that he come under one of the exceptions of the statute, We further state to your Excellency that Calhoun is a very poor man and have a Large family, We therefore ask your Excellency to Interpose and release said fine

E, C. Spiceland R M Rogers C. C. Flora G. S. Mimms Thos E Blake J. P. Gentry J. McQuaid N. C. Cheatham Wm Duwitt Isaac. Cooper, T N Ingram T J Yeats John R. Blake Jams P Green John, V, Atwood E A. Holland W H Rector John Theobald J. R. Fugua J. T. Gore J. M. Gentry D. J. Smith J. D. Fair Jesse Wallis A, J, Cherry

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S. M. Pollard E. hodge J, E, C Hodge J. F. Dyer Jno. L. Trice E D New J,, A,, Gibbs J. D. Wood N, J Ritch H, C, Eidson W K Wallis William Holland W, M, Noel Rufus J Boyd W, I, Fugua A Cunningham Jr John, C, Jones J. B. Yeats C H Andrew W W Jackson Henry Malone J E Hodge W C Whitney J. P. Thompson. Alger & Co John Lewis W. H. Wright W J. Atwood S S Tinley Thos. H. Atwood E. vinson John J. Dyer S. J. C Henry Lawrence A. W. Edwards W D Robertson Jno R Grace P. J. L cc

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His Excellency

Will please omit any communication he may have for petitioner to him (James A. Calhoun) Blandsville Ballard Co Ky. & Your petitioner as in duty bound will forever pray &c.

James A Calhoun

Remitted B. M

Trigg Cir. Ct $50. } Weapons Jas A Calhoun

IssdJuly 18. 1861